262 THE ENTOMOLOGIST. 



DESCRIPTION OF A NEW GENUS OF BEES FROM INDIA. 

 By Peter Cameron. 



Aglaoapis, gen. nov. 



Wings short, not reaching to the apex of the third abdominal seg- 

 ment. There are two closed cubital cellules ; the first is longer than 

 the second above and below ; the radial cellule has the apex rounded 

 and not much narrowed ; the first recurrent nervure is interstitial ; the 

 second is received not far from the apex of the cellule. Eyes large, 

 slightly converging below, and reaching to the base of the mandibles ; 

 the ocelli are in a curve. Labrum visible, siiort, obliquely depressed. 

 Mandibles bidentate ; the apical tooth is much larger than the other. 

 Scutellum bluntly projecting laterally at the apex ; the middle slightly 

 projects, and is keeled ; the post-scutellum is keeled in the middle. 

 Median segment short ; the basal area large. Legs short and stout, 

 pilose ; the tibiae and tarsi not densely covered with long hair. The 

 basal segment of the abdomen is transverse at the base, and is bordered 

 at the base by a distinct keel ; the apical segment is longer than the 

 penultimate, and is distinctly incised at the apex ; the sides of the 

 incision are straight and oblique, and form two distinct lobes, which 

 become gradually narrowed from the base to the apex ; the lower edge 

 is stoutly keeled. The antennae are short and stout ; the third joint 

 is not much narrowed ; the head is well-developed behind the eyes, 

 with the occiput transverse ; the apex of the scutellum does not pro- 

 ject over the post-scutellum, and ouly over the median segment at the 

 sides ; the claws and spurs are simple ; the tegulfe are large ; the 

 head and thorax are thickly covered with short white pubescence ; the 

 abdominal segments are narrowly banded at the apex with white 

 pubescence. There is no ventral scopa. The front calcaria are 

 normally curved ; the claws simple. 



Belongs, if anywhere, to the Stelididae, and comes nearest 

 perhaps to Parcvaspis, which may be known from it by the pro- 

 jecting apex of the scutellum, which is incised at the apex ; by 

 the second recurrent nervure being received beyond the second 

 transverse cubital nervure, and not in the second cubital cellule ; 

 by the apex of the abdomen not being deeply incised in the 

 middle in the female ; and by the longer wings. The wings in 

 the present genus are shorter than usual. It is easily known by 

 the form of the scutellum, by the transversely keeled basal 

 segment of the abdomen, and by the deep incision in the apical 

 segment. The colour— black, with the basal two or three seg- 

 ments of the abdomen red — is peculiar, and does not occur with 

 any other Indian species. The genus is doubtless, like Stelis and 

 Parevaspis, a parasitic one. 



Aglaoapis brevipennis, sp. nov. 



Black, thickly covered with white pubescence ; the apices of the 

 abdominal segments banded with white pubescence ; the greater part 



